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plus a day of prayer to remember the victims president obama attends an interface service to honor the victims of the boston marathon attack this as the f.b.i. appears no closer to finding out who is responsible for the explosion an update from boston straight ahead. plus it's back lawmakers in the house give the go ahead to the controversial cybersecurity bill but white house value the white house value to veto it later in the show what's in the system bill and why you should be concerned about your internet freedoms. is thursday april eighteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you are watching r.t. we begin in texas where a major blast at a fertilizer plant literally decimated half the town there are facilities from the fatalities from this incident but the exact number of people is currently unknown upwards of one hundred sixty people have been injured three to four firefighters and one police officer who responded to the explosion are still missing and the search for the blast happened at eight pm eastern time in the town of west texas at the west fertilizer company
plus a day of prayer to remember the victims president obama attends an interface service to honor the victims of the boston marathon attack this as the f.b.i. appears no closer to finding out who is responsible for the explosion an update from boston straight ahead. plus it's back lawmakers in the house give the go ahead to the controversial cybersecurity bill but white house value the white house value to veto it later in the show what's in the system bill and why you should be concerned...
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suspect behind the marathon bombings while an envelope place with toxic rust in is sent to president obama. it's four pm here in the russian capital you're watching on t.v. live it with me to bomb would say this hour we'll bring you the latest developments in the u.s. a state of texas way a massive blast has ripped through a fertilizer plant and police say up to fifteen people have been killed and at least one hundred sixty injured but emergency crews of fear as a many as a seventy may have died. well you know like nobody i think. you know. the explosion had the full size of a mine a f quake and destroyed several buildings they suing blaze it spread to nearby apartment blocks and schools apply a houses have been abroad on those control but several firefighters and police officers see it officials have shut down pos applies and evacuated house the town amid concerns that another such lies a tank at the facility could blow up because of the charges he is not yet made police say they will begin an investigation once rescue operations are over but that so far there is no evidence of foul play
suspect behind the marathon bombings while an envelope place with toxic rust in is sent to president obama. it's four pm here in the russian capital you're watching on t.v. live it with me to bomb would say this hour we'll bring you the latest developments in the u.s. a state of texas way a massive blast has ripped through a fertilizer plant and police say up to fifteen people have been killed and at least one hundred sixty injured but emergency crews of fear as a many as a seventy may have...
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twitter account the tweet claims that there were two blasts outside of the white house and that president obama had in fact been injured but that it was fake the a.p. twitter account had in fact been hacked regardless the damage was done and within seconds that update had been rich waited four thousand times and apparently wall street was watching stocks took a nosedive within minutes of the tweet actually being posted the dow jones dropped over one hundred thirty three points but just as quickly as it fell the stock market recovered when it learned that that tweet was in fact a farce so obviously the boston bombing is still having ripple effects on the affairs of the american public meanwhile four days since the boston marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar sinai of was taken into custody by authorities new details are coming in from the investigation here's the latest information coming out speaking to interrogators from a hospital bed the nineteen year old acknowledged playing a role in planting the explosives near the marathon finish line he also told investigators that u.s. forces in iraq and a
twitter account the tweet claims that there were two blasts outside of the white house and that president obama had in fact been injured but that it was fake the a.p. twitter account had in fact been hacked regardless the damage was done and within seconds that update had been rich waited four thousand times and apparently wall street was watching stocks took a nosedive within minutes of the tweet actually being posted the dow jones dropped over one hundred thirty three points but just as...
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situation in guantanamo a state department representative stuck to their fish a line that president obama remains committed to closing the facility but with no sign of any real substance towards doing that prisoners are being driven to desperation says former guantanamo detainee back. to be a will and i don't think the will exists certainly if you've still got people who want time and will eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send them these individuals to places where they're supposed to have a basic normal life and i don't know when the will is going to come when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush not being cleared at the time of the hunger strike. is an action of desperation there you know very well in guantanamo but the only way you can get sure rights is by taking extreme measures do you view this is that the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through the noise and even one of them has just recently written something through his lawyer in the american papers and w
situation in guantanamo a state department representative stuck to their fish a line that president obama remains committed to closing the facility but with no sign of any real substance towards doing that prisoners are being driven to desperation says former guantanamo detainee back. to be a will and i don't think the will exists certainly if you've still got people who want time and will eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send them these...
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with government agencies getting around privacy laws and made it through to the senate but president obama still afford to be wary of signing it off archies america produce the end drew blake has more. aides for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation to sever intelligence and for sharing of protection act it's come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what the authors say it does now the authors of cispa they say that this bill will lead to businesses private companies google facebook and many internet provider these companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that will be used to track down and monitor and curb its cyber attacks aimed at the united states computer critics say that it puts too much of americans privacy at risk and that the right safeguards are there people would be separate pricing their privacy for a little bit of security when the bill was introduced back in february i believe one of the areas for the second time representative or one of the au
with government agencies getting around privacy laws and made it through to the senate but president obama still afford to be wary of signing it off archies america produce the end drew blake has more. aides for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation to sever intelligence and for sharing of protection act it's come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what the authors say it does now the authors of...
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this was an act of terror and after the bombings actually happened at the boston marathon president obama on monday though was very hesitant at first to call this such an attack now how do you classify something as a terror attack is it method is it victims is it the perpetrator or is it some combination of these things it is absolutely a combination of all of the things that you have mentioned but primarily would look at the civilian victims first victims in general that is outside the norms of regular conflict and war and that is conducted with extreme violence and collective . punishment versus as a nation for example which is one target but in this case now we are beyond that and you are right to say that president obama was very careful he was advised not to have asked what the facts were going very fast as two bombs have exploded people were killed congress were injured and then more important the perpetrators now the terrorist have engaged in firefight with law enforcement so it has all the hallmarks of a team in this case two brothers who have planned this terror. and planned prob
this was an act of terror and after the bombings actually happened at the boston marathon president obama on monday though was very hesitant at first to call this such an attack now how do you classify something as a terror attack is it method is it victims is it the perpetrator or is it some combination of these things it is absolutely a combination of all of the things that you have mentioned but primarily would look at the civilian victims first victims in general that is outside the norms...
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began quickly calling this an act of terrorism on monday after the bombings actually happened president obama of course was very hesitant at first to call it such an attack how do you classify something as a terror attack is it method is it victims is it the perpetrator or is it some type of combination. well and thank you for having me it's one of the most difficult questions i think that we're facing in our legal system today which largely surrounds the fact that we have passed almost countless pieces of legislation that define different things as primitive acts and then almost on a net basis. we pick and choose what acts we're going to hang the moniker or the mantle of terrorism onto as actor typically define it you can look at any of the more than dozen said role definitions here and you know if states of terrorism this would most likely be considered a low level tactic for ferrous was sure now these men are from the chechen republic area tomorrow and of course was born in russia john harwood was reportedly born in carriages than the family lived in dagestan in the russian federation for
began quickly calling this an act of terrorism on monday after the bombings actually happened president obama of course was very hesitant at first to call it such an attack how do you classify something as a terror attack is it method is it victims is it the perpetrator or is it some type of combination. well and thank you for having me it's one of the most difficult questions i think that we're facing in our legal system today which largely surrounds the fact that we have passed almost...
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on alert letters with rice and have been sent to president obama and other lawmakers to washington is on the heightened alert we'll have that update coming up next days after violent clashes between guards and prisoners the u.s. military says the hunger strike at guantanamo bay is expanding plus we're learning about a new report that looks at torture we'll sort through that just ahead. let's wednesday april seventeenth find him in washington d.c. i'm margaret held you're watching our team and the city of boston is still reeling from the tragic events that rocked the city monday afternoon two separate explosions ripped through the stands of the boston marathon injuring scores of onlookers and leaving three including an eight year old child dead those law enforcement agencies contend you just search for answers in the case artie's own honest i see a church going to is on the ground with the latest hi there anastasio so tell me what's happening down there. well margaret what's happening right now is of course the investigation is ongoing it's certainly still in its first stages officials
on alert letters with rice and have been sent to president obama and other lawmakers to washington is on the heightened alert we'll have that update coming up next days after violent clashes between guards and prisoners the u.s. military says the hunger strike at guantanamo bay is expanding plus we're learning about a new report that looks at torture we'll sort through that just ahead. let's wednesday april seventeenth find him in washington d.c. i'm margaret held you're watching our team and...
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how that works there and before i was on capitol hill i worked as a white house intern for president obama in the presidential office of correspondence is very similar process except for is overseen by secret service and in fact the office of presidential correspondence is very large has over fifty employees and over thirteen hundred volunteers that help read all the president's mail the president gets about ten thousand pieces of mail a week and then every single piece of mail is read by a human being and then before it gets to the president's desk is probably you seen at least six. white house appointees but it is a similar process the president's office of correspondence is actually off site and even in the white house is too big to fit in the white house but before it reaches the presidential is correspondents office is sent to another facility where it screened overseen by the secret service so again it's pretty much a cost over something like this to reach the president's office ok so mail sorters and people like you know are they in real danger of actually touching the mail you know
how that works there and before i was on capitol hill i worked as a white house intern for president obama in the presidential office of correspondence is very similar process except for is overseen by secret service and in fact the office of presidential correspondence is very large has over fifty employees and over thirteen hundred volunteers that help read all the president's mail the president gets about ten thousand pieces of mail a week and then every single piece of mail is read by a...